Jonathan Jones from The Guardian described her art as “absurd, gratuitous, trite and desperate”, while Jess Denham in The Independent saw it as "the latest desperate effort to shock in the name of art." Some even wonder if this is art or porn. The artist and her pieces have been receiving a lot of mixed responses from both critics and audiences. She aims to question the thought diktat of everyday life by breaking existent taboos and transforming the behavior accepted as self-evident into an artistic language of images. Yet many wonder if these performances are a sense of commercialized exhibitionism, an act of subversion and provocation, pornography, or something else. Ī self-professed protege of Marina Abramovic, the artist claims she uses nudity as a vehicle for equality and her sex as an original source for creating.
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As she explains, she makes use of naked skin “as an ambivalent sign of bareness, of the contempt for exposure rooted in culture, collective vulnerability and as a symbol of the universal longing for closeness”. For her, people are a part of the performance, being responsible for their behavior in that moment. Her work is inspired mainly by sexuality and it explores the moral distance that people commonly take when dealing with explicit sexual scenes. Having studied cognitive and neurosciences and graduating with a degree in psychology, Moiré has decided to implement this knowledge of the human psyche into her art. Whether walking around the museum naked with a baby in her arms, riding naked on a bus, encouraging random pedestrians to touch her intimate parts, or laying painted eggs from her vagina onto a white canvas, the artist and muse Milo Moiré has managed to stir controversies with each of her staged happenings. With continuous efforts to connect the women’s rights activism with artistic expression, Moiré has decided to place her body in the center of her practice. In an attempt to join the fray, the Swiss conceptual artist Milo Moiré has repeatedly revealed her body in public as part of performances that have been often labeled as provocative and controversial.
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The nude female body continues to be a frequent image in cultural feminist performance art, with many artists insisting that it is somehow outside the system of representation that objectifies women, free of the culture’s imposed constructs and constrictions. Even though the naked body allows for a wide range of readings, nude performance art has often been practiced by feminist artists to raise important questions about gender politics, reclaim women’s subjectivity, separate the nude from sexual desire, or challenge certain attitudes towards female bodies or accepted body image standards. Ever since the emergence of performance art, nudity has been employed to create a variety of narratives.
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